Chapter 3 Chapter Three Dare to Disobey the Mandate of Heaven

Okubo Chang'an has been dreaming a lot lately, even when he is drunk.Dreaminess is often caused by the weakness of the five internal organs.Chang An usually pays great attention to maintenance, and often reminds himself not to be overworked; however, despite this, he still has a lot of dreams recently.Those dreams or behaviors in youth, or sinking into hazy illusions are incredible. In the dream, Chang'an even had a huge palace.The palace is made of gold and silver, and there is a pool of clear lake water next to the majestic palace, where you can sit by the water and fish leisurely.Things that have never been seen before appear in dreams?At the beginning, Chang'an was fascinated by the dream, and he often thought wildly: Is it because Lord Nobunaga invited me to Antu City to see the ape music?Recently, whenever he fell asleep, he would dream of the palace.

After falling asleep, Okubo Changan entered a completely different life from when he was awake.Although Chang'an is happy when he is awake, he also has unhappiness and sadness.However, in the dream, he didn't have any sorrow and lamentation, only contentment.So when he opened his eyes, he felt uneasy instead: Is this God telling me that the time of death is approaching?In the dream, he had everything he wanted. In the dream, he was not as greedy and obsessed with the beauty of scenery, gold and silver, or even fine wine and women as usual.If there really is a Western Pure Land, he may have arrived there in his dream.For Changan, sleeping has become a pleasure, but the moment he wakes up, he will feel lonely instead.

Tonight, Chang'an hangs his fishing line again in the dream palace, but the fishing line suddenly becomes tangled.He sighed: I'm going to wake up again!For a moment, he had to come back to reality—oh, what did I do last night?It was a separate garden in Sakai Port, and I invited a few prostitutes with breast guards to have fun together.Why would you want that empty excitement then?Is it because you want to fill in the void between dreams and reality, so that your behavior becomes more and more outrageous? Just thinking like this, the arm of the woman beside Chang An's head moved slightly.Chang'an doesn't want to move, just being half asleep and half awake is the bliss of a person; after returning to reality, he will feel hunger and thirst, both thirst and desire for a woman's body.In any case, if a person feels thirsty, it means that he is still alive, and at the same time, it will cause all kinds of anxiety: Should we continue to go back and forth between official career and game like this, waiting for aging and death?If so, is life not a dream, not even a fleeting dream?

The woman beside Chang An moved again.She hooked Chang An's feet with her feet, and wrapped her arms around his back. Chang'an shuddered.The woman seemed to want to help him drive away the indescribable emptiness after waking up from the dream.It is terrible if someone does not love women.Chang'an began to sort out his memory: a guest came, named Sangtian Yuping, and talked about Zhu Yinchuan and the raw silk business.Chang An called some prostitutes in the name of entertaining him. In fact, he himself was tired of the body of the woman named Qiantui and wanted to find something new and exciting.Then, I chose a nice woman myself.correct!Didn't he choose a woman who is as beautiful as the rain-drenched flower, but stubborn and inexplicable?

Thinking of this, Chang An felt the woman beside him move her finger again. Chang'an has a deep understanding of this: touching the other party after waking up from alcohol is nothing more than experiencing disappointment and regret again; physical contact without desire will only continue to disturb people.Human desire is incredible. Chang'an then groped the woman's body, there was nothing special about it, all women were similar. "I have touched many bodies like this before." Chang An whispered, and sighed, "They are all the same, alas." "Are you disappointed?"

"En." Chang An replied in a low voice. The woman suddenly slapped him in the face. "Ah..." Chang An covered his face and stepped back, but for some reason, his heart felt at ease.He could feel that this woman was no stranger, and she had no hostility to kill him, but a mixture of infatuation and anger. "What's going on?" Chang'an said, "Did someone change while I was asleep?" "Do you know who I am?" Ah Xing's eyes were red, and he looked quite embarrassed.This situation is too different from the fantasy carefully depicted.

"How can I not know? I, I knew this was the case!" "Who do you say I am?" "Hmph!" Chang An covered his face, "Well, Qiantui, the beating was really hard." For a moment, the woman sank her shoulders, as if she wanted to call again.The light was dim, and the woman turned her back to the lantern, so she couldn't see her face clearly... She wasn't Chitose!Chang An's hair suddenly stood on end. What's wrong?Horror immediately engulfed Chang'an, and he really felt the murderous aura around him. The woman is silent. Who is this woman?It would be great if Changan could figure it out, then the murderous aura in the woman's heart could be immediately dispelled.However, I still don't know who she is, "You are..."

After a long time, the woman said, "You don't know why I chased you here?" For Ah Xing, this was an unexpected concession. Perhaps, it could be said that it was a woman's weakness—once she found out that the other party really didn't recognize her, she would immediately become anxious.If in Chang'an's heart, she is the same as those women who can be bought with a few dollars, then what should she do? "My lord is not worried about me at all. There is a big trap in front of you, but you still don't know it, so I came after it on purpose..." ah?Chang An was shocked.I came here deliberately... These words finally dispelled the haze.He smiled, "How could I not know! I already knew it was you." After that, he secretly looked at the other party's reaction.

"My lord, you don't know anything!" Ah Xing's tone became extremely tough, "You don't know that everyone in the world is staring at you! You just know that you are having fun, eating, drinking and having fun all day long!" "..." "Do you know what kind of ambition Sodero came to Edo with? Do you know why Date-sama married his beloved daughter to Kamisousuke-sama? You really didn't notice Date's ambition?" Chang'an no longer needs to think about it.Ah Xing is Ah Xing!But why would she say such a thing? "Your Excellency, you don't know that right now the Nanman and the red-haired man are fighting to the death for their own interests. The red-haired man deliberately placed Miura next to the Imperial Palace in order to drive the Nanman out of Japan; The red-haired man is trying his best to find a way to turn Japan into his own world. Look at the city of Osaka, the newly conferred names are all daimyos who believe in foreign religions. Once those people find that the Great Imperial Palace is on the side of the red-haired man, It will definitely encircle Edo, which is not good for Tokugawa."

"..." "No, it's just that, they still can't compete with Edo. So, in addition to believing in the name of the foreign religion, they also win over Lord Date, and you..." Chang An couldn't help holding his breath.He didn't know anything about it, where did Ah Xing hear about it? Seeing that Chang'an was silent, Ah Xing spoke more vigorously: "In Nanman's eyes, one is the Lord of Osaka City, and the other is Lord Date, no, maybe Lord Kaga—the one who has always been with Takayama Ukon and Naito (Xiaonishi). Maeda Toshinaga, who is quite close, is afraid that he has supported the Nanman long ago. And then you, my lord. Even if the Imperial Palace is not on the side of the red-haired man, he is old after all, so he wooed the brother of the current general, Date Your lord's son-in-law will be able to guarantee the unification of the world. And the elder of the lord's boss is just you, your lord, who holds the power. Now you are not only the key to affecting the current situation, but even the Nanman and Hong Kong people. The key to Mao Zhuguo. Such a person, who still doesn’t know anything, just drinks and has fun here! If Lord Yida announces that he will take your place, what should we do then?”

Chang An's body became more and more stiff, not only because of the cold in the morning, he might have been pushed into the center of the storm, and this storm was far beyond his imagination.Toyotomi Hideyori from Osaka, Date and Maeda are two powerful daimyos, plus Mori and Shimadzu who have always harbored ill intentions against Tokugawa, if you add the general's brother, what will happen to the world?He couldn't help but close his eyes tightly. Ah Xing's words are not entirely correct, and there are also assumptions.For example, she said that England and the Netherlands specially sent Miura's acupuncture needles to Ieyasu's side, which is pure speculation.The boat on which the needle was taken drifted to the shore of Bungo by accident, and Date's relationship with Ieyasu's sixth son Tadaki was not intentional.In addition, Ieyasu wanted to join forces with Date Masamune, and Masamune originally had this plan, but he did recruit Zhonghui as his son-in-law first, not because he had the intention of treason. Even so, there are facts that cannot be ignored in Ah Xing's words.It is an irrefutable fact that Sodero went to Edo specifically because he wanted to separate Miura Yasuke from Ieyasu.It is also a fact that Date Masamune knows Sodero's mind best.If Nanman and Ieyasu open their hearts and shake hands, Japan will be involved in the turmoil between the old and new religions competing for the world, and may even be divided into two.Under the rule of Tokugawa, there are far more disgruntled foreign daimyos than Ayuki had estimated. If they join hands with overseas forces and take Hideyori, the lord of Osaka Castle, as the leader, they will surely form a powerful force capable of confronting the shogunate.In this way, Okubo Changan, as the elder of Matsudaira Tadaki, is responsible for dominating the world's gold. How he chooses will become the key to determining the outcome of the old and new forces. Chang An's heart froze, but his body trembled. "My lord," Ah Xing continued to pour out his grievances and emotions, "My lord, you are holding the key to the world. It is only a matter of one thought. If you are sober, you can make the world a mess." Taiping; if you continue to live in such a muddled way, you will be cornered by Date sooner or later!" "Wait, Xing!" Chang'an finally said, "I didn't understand half of what you said. Why did Mutsumori drive me into a corner?" "How could you not think of it? Okubo Changan embraced Mr. Sousuke and stood by Osaka. If the world said that, how would you care?" Chang An was startled as if a big nail had been inserted into his chest.Date Masamune may really do this, first create rumors, and then observe the reaction of the world.Masamune was always good at such things. "My lord, even if Date's slander is revealed, he will pretend to be confused and ignore it. But how should I clear my lord's suspicion?" A Xing quietly put his hands into Chang'an's collar, and gently rubbed him. pinch. There seemed to be sparks bursting in Chang An's icy body. Was it because Ah Xing, who hugged him, had recovered his wonderful motherhood, or was it because another plan in his heart gradually became clear?He thought, isn't it just a play? I have always been dedicated and conscientious, and have fought against vipers in the deep mountains of Sado, Iwami, and Izu many times. Is it just for the 40,000 stone annual salary of the chief acting official?No.Ever since he saw the huge gold nugget in Daban City for the first time, Chang'an had an unprecedented sweet dream.This dream is to use the gold underground in Japan to dominate the seas of the world and become the king of trade.Since following Ieyasu, he began to feel that his dreams had come true. However, there is still a gap between reality and dream.In terms of shipbuilding and trade, Chaya Seiji, who was more capable than him, and Ieyasu's concubine Mrs. Anazu's elder brother, Tanigawa Sahei Tohiro, both had considerable influence in Nagasaki.As far as the overseas situation is concerned, Miura is more familiar with acupuncture than Chang'an.In this way, Chang'an is just a person in charge of digging gold, and those who can control gold are Ieyasu, Fujihiro, Chaya and Yazhen and others. How frustrating!Chang An hugged Ah Xing tightly, and while listening to her whispering, he secretly said in his heart: I expected too much, only to be more disappointed, drink more and more, and play more and more frequently. But now, a new bargaining chip fell from the sky to him.This bargaining chip is not for him to disturb the world and plunge the world into war, but for Chaya Shirojiro, Hasegawa Sahei, Ieyasu, Anzhen, Hideyori, Tadaki and others to stop ignoring him Okubo Changan.That is, using Date Masamune and Sodero to quietly block their ambitions.Thinking about it this way, both Ida and Sodero became interesting playthings. "I'm sorry, Xing." When a man talks to a woman, he must be careful.If Chang'an doesn't comfort Ah Xing at this time, he might be seen through by her. "Ah Xing, I will get better. Your words opened my eyes, and I will live for the good of the world. Ah Xing..." Changan said, hugging A Xing vigorously. Ah Xing sobbed, thinking that Chang An really took care of her, and really caressed her with all his heart.However, Chang'an has been burned by another desire, so he wildly teases Ah Xing.As the saying goes, the same bed and different dreams, the two are really sad! "You won't forget your concubine again, will you?" Ah Xing said again. "How could I forget? I was reborn because of you!" Chang'an said, Zhonghui's face appeared in his mind, and then Goro Baji.He thought: Even if these two become the general and the general's wife, their appearance and demeanor are not inappropriate at all.After all, the Great Imperial Palace is old.He thought again of the one-eyed face of the eccentric Date Masamune.Taige died in sixty-three, and since then the Imperial Palace has been overworked, even if he can live a long life, it will only be five or six years.Thinking of this, Chang An suddenly felt affection for Ah Xing in his arms: Women are so innocent! However, if the Imperial Palace is gone, can the second generation general suppress the arrogance of the Southern Barbarians and Red-haired people and continue to do business overseas as the Imperial Palace expected? When Changan thought about it, Masamune in his head pretended to smile: "Haha, do you know what I'm thinking? For the sake of Japan and Tokugawa, I want to train someone who can truly inherit the ambition of the Great Imperial Palace. You and I both know this person... ..." Chang'an completely forgot about Ah Xing in his arms.The man's ambition is so great that Ida may become a greedy devil.The red-haired man has Miura pressing the needle by Ieyasu's side, so it is very convenient to do things, so he wants to strengthen contacts with the Nanman people.Fortunately, Sodero is willing to assist Ida, and will do his best for the benefit.With Date Masamune's extraordinary mind, he will definitely come up with a way, such as assassinating the second generation general, or instigating Osaka to rebel... Chang An was thinking wildly, when A Xing unexpectedly bit him hard on the shoulder. "Ah! It hurts!" Chang An finally woke up from the dream. He seemed fully revived.Ashin's completely conquered appearance injected even more strength into his high-spirited vitality. Let the son-in-law be the general, let Okubo Chang'an be an outstanding and capable person to assist, and control the power of the world... Ide Masamune will definitely show his fox's tail in front of Chang'an. Chang'an is the elder of Date Masamune's son-in-law.If the matter is revealed, the son-in-law, daughter-in-law, husband-in-law, and Chang'an will all fall into the abyss together, so Masamune will not harm Chang'an.But if Date Masamune didn't take Chang'an seriously, how could it be good?In that case, Chang'an could not only suspend the mining of gold and silver, but also bury the gold and silver.How can you do business with overseas without gold and silver?Don't foreigners just hope that Japan is the golden island described by Marco Polo?As long as Changan handles it properly, Date Masamune will never dare to ignore his power. Changan found that Ah Xing had fallen asleep soundly, snoring slightly.He suddenly had the urge to jump up and walk around.However, it is better to be cautious at this time, Ah Xing's brain is surprisingly sharp, before the plan is fully formed, Chang'an does not want to be so stupid as to be seen through by others.He thought that he could also use a means against the Imperial Palace, saying that the production of gold and silver had decreased, and the veins seemed to disappear.As long as he can firmly grasp the lifeline of gold, Zhonghui, Date Masamune, Goro Baji and others are all in the palm of his hand.Zhonghui's mother, Cha Aju, is still by Ieyasu's side. Whenever Date Masamune makes any movement, the foreign daimyos will definitely react. Chang An suddenly trembled violently.This is neither treason nor betrayal!But he is already on the cusp...